Richard Deverell to succeed Professor Stephen Hopper as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richard Deverell joins Kew after nearly 20 years at the BBC where he achieved great success leading and managing new initiatives in such important areas as BBC News where he ran the news and sport websites, and BBC Children’s where he was responsible for CBBC and CBeebies. He was also the Chief Operating Officer for BBC North and thus contributed to the delivery of one of the BBC’s most important new capital projects: the creation of Media City in Salford.
A Natural Sciences graduate from Cambridge University, Richard is familiar with the challenges and opportunities facing Kew as a result of his six years as a trustee between 2003 and 2009 during which time, amongst other things, he chaired the Board Audit Committee.
